Arnold SchoenbergFrühlings Tod [The Death of Spring] (symphonic poem after Nikolaus Lenau, 1898, unfinished)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor [broadcast, 1985]
one MP3 file (including intro & outro)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/bb88mwf0t4fc6qh/Schoenberg__The_Death_of_Spring.mp3/fileActually, quite a bit more than a fragment, almost ten minutes long. Gorgeous late Romanticism, predating Verklaerte Nacht and Gurrelieder. Sadly, it ends very abruptly -- a great shame it wasn't completed but at least we have the opportunity to hear what there is.
That was wonderful! Yes, the ending was abrupt but it could be completed. I hear how it would end. It wouldn't be what Schoenberg imagined but would create a finished work....a satisfying approximation.
